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This is the B52 Bomber that was rigged up to carry the X-15 Rocket Plane. You can see the mount under the right wing.. The hash marks on the fuselage of the B52 indicate the number of missions that were flown to carry the X-15 aloft. Each mark is actually an X-15 silhouette. The angled marks are altitude record attempts and the level marks are speed record attempts..
There were a number of Russian MIGS there. The story behind the current MIG-29's is that a small country that was allied with the Russians decided to divest themselves of the 40 MIG-29 planes. The USA bought them in order to keep them out of the hands of other countries. From there, they were examined, destroyed, moth-balled (like this one).
These planes are much smaller than I had imagined. Here's Dar standing in front of one.
I woke up to a water leak in the basement this morning.
It appears that someone, in the process of doing the mechanicals of the house when it was built almost 20 years ago, cut into the drain pipe for the upstairs bathroom and somehow managed to seal it up, until today. This cut is above the cold air return and main heating duct. Those, in turn, are above a double 2x8 beam that carries the upstairs floor joists. It was next to impossible to replace the whole pipe without cutting out a good portion of the current plumbing and redoing it all. So, a band aid it is.
The cut and the fix.
Wow Mike, that's nuts! Probably wouldn't have been a big deal to replace the pipe when the mistake happened.
Right. Probably the tin benders did it when doing the duct work. Plumbing was in first. I still don't know how it didn't leak until today. There didn't appear to be any silicone or anything on the cut. It is way to straight and had rough edges to be a break...
